The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church

As we gathered yesterday to affirm the election of your new bishop coadjutor, I looked out over the congregation and saw great joy and celebration. There were a surprising number of young people gathered, some of whom sang and led the music during the offertory. Others were doing a...

[World Council of Churches press release] The World Council of Churches (WCC) has condemned recent attacks against a mosque in the West Bank and a Christian center in Jerusalem that appear to be part of the series of so-called “price-tag” attacks by extremist elements.

According to media reports, a group of Jewish settlers stormed Al-Jaba’a village, near Bethlehem, and set fire to the Al-Huda Mosque, leaving anti-Arab slogans on its walls. The...

February 28, 2015

[The Episcopal News — Los Angeles] The Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd – whose human rights advocacy shaped most of his 30 books including the 1965 best-seller Are You Running with Me, Jesus? – died February 27 in Los Angeles while receiving private hospice care. Severe complications of pneumonia caused Boyd’s death at age 91, said his life partner, Mark Thompson.

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